In 2019, @propublica and @postandcourier ran blockbuster investigations into SC's magistrate judges: inexperienced political appointees with no training who held South Carolinians' lives in their hands - and who use the bench to extract bribes, deal in overt racism and worse.

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The first revealed that SC's magistrates got less training than its barbers, and their appointments, though subject to reapproval, were practically speaking lifelong and irrevocable, regardless of misconduct, bumbling, or actual criminal

The qualifications process is bizarre. SC magistrates need to pass a one-hour exam, but they can (and do) re-take it many times without penalty. That test includes questions like "Which of the following numbers is larger?" And magistrates fail that test. Repeatedly.

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Magistrates are so ill-qualified that the rare, decent appointee can end up repeatedly breaking the law without knowing it, as construction worker (and local GOP chairman) Arthur Bryngelson did, leading to him resigning in horror and reporting himself for breaches.

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Not all of the unqualified magistrates have Bryngelson's moral fiber: BBQ chef/magistrate Clemon Stocker got his relative Willie Earl Reese released on bail after he pistol-whipped a man. Reese murdered his wife five days later.

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I was listening to parts of @PatrickByrne's interview about his meeting with @potus in which @SidneyPowell1 and @GenFlynn also attended.

First, I appreciate the fact that Patrick has spent $1.5 million of his own money to investigate voter fraud and fight the deep state machine

Second, the question was asked why does @Potus give people like White House General Counsel Pat Cipollone the time of day? Mr. Byrne said every time they would suggest a course of action to the President, Pat would shoot it down because Pat has been tasked by senior

Bureaucrats to do whatever it takes to get @realDonaldTrump to concede the election.

I understand Mr. Byrne's concern that @Potus is surrounded by a den of liars and deep state traitors who want nothing more than to be rid of the President, but this is classic Art of War tactics

being used by @Potus.

@Potus will act as if he is considering the advice of rats like Cipollone to gain intel on the plans of the deep state, and to appear weak when he is actually in the driver's seat. Don't think for one second @Potus does not know Cipollone's true intentions

Mr. Byrne said he believes @realDonaldTrump is too nice and that's why he allows people like the White House General Counsel to continue to advise him. I disagree. @Potus is a genius. He knows exactly what he is doing. He holds all the cards. The military is running this

🚨 I am a retired RN due to vacc injuries, so yes I'm passionate about the vacc debate.I've done my research so when I share info it's Not about my personal feelings. I want people to have as many facts as they can before deciding if they will take the vacc or not.
Medicine has

How Deep Does Censorship Go In Ireland 🇮🇪 ?

1.I have to admit to never really thinking about this until a few weeks back. Then my eyes were really opened and when I say deep, I really mean deep.
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2.About 6 weeks ago I wanted to try and get some leaflets printed out to distribute to people to inform them of the facts instead of the rubbish that is being spouted by the Govt, NPHET & The Media. These leaflets were in no way controversial.

1/ Let's talk about Impermanent Loss and how it can be solved using tranches and segregating returns between parties.

⚠️𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐀𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐝.

2/ @saffronfinance_ is building a tranche ecosystem that is bifurcating yields between high-risk/high-return and low-risk/low return tranches. The initial products were aimed at interest generation. High-risk tranche earns 10x interest of low tranche, in exchange for insuring the

3/ principal of the low-risk tranche if there is an adverse event in one of the underlying lending/yield aggregating platforms. Now, thinking outside the box and expanding a bit this can be applied to insurance, more specifically IL insurance.

4/ A low-risk tranche (LPs) can deposit their LP tokens (Uniswap, Sushiswap, etc.) into this tranche in exchange for a portion of their LP rewards & trading fees. A high-risk/high-yield tranche contains both of the LP tokens and covers the IL of the low-risk tranche.

5/ If the low-risk tranche has IL, the tokens are taken out from the high-yield tranche. The low-risk tranche can now be a LP and earn at least 12% APY with *zero* risk of IL. The high-yield tranche will receive elevated returns from the LP rewards + trading fees obtained from

@robert_spalding The CCP factions are real. I spent 10+ years living their. The mess we unleashed on the world is of the West’s own making. We did not spend the time to understand the Chinese people, their culture or their government. Most still do not, bother. But now they are transformed.
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@imaginejim Strangely enough, I can kinda relate to him on a certain level. He's a wise cracking tough guy, but once you dig deep enough you start to realize he has a big heart. He makes the wrong decisions sometimes but it's hard to blame him considering what he's been through.

I love Deadpool for the same reasons. Him and CGR are very similar, but CGR cannot break the fourth wall, so his story feels more contained, serious and real. There are times to be serious (just read Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys Marvel History).

In the end, he's just a man who's suffered incredibly terrible loss, and instead of fighting for revenge, he fights to prevent others from suffering the fate that he did. For justice. Justice in his own, dark and twisted way, but justice nonetheless.

That is until Thanos kills everyone and he lives on Earth alone for many years. He becomes the Spirit of Vengeance. He's lost his marbles. For the first time in a long time, he had wanted company. Someone to love or to kill. But there was nobody.

And when Galactus arrives, he takes his chance for revenge. He fails, but he later succeeds. He is killed though, and sent to Valhalla.

Odin sends him back in time to when Thanos is an infant. Frank has the intention to kill him. To prevent the deaths of millions.

I've been an elected official for the same amount of time as the 5 (so far) UCP MLAs who decided that taking a warm vacation while telling Albertans to stay home was OK.

I've spent the last few days trying to figure out how in the world they came to that conclusion. #ableg

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When you enter politics, you know your actions will rightfully be subject to public scrutiny. Not just because there's more attention, but also because you've asked the public to place their trust in you. You're expected to lead by example. Never more so than during a crisis.

Every day, I have moments where I reflect on my actions. Sometimes I'm sure I got it wrong. But the importance of that reflection has been heightened during the pandemic. It's brand new to all of us, I need to not only be seen to do the right thing, but I have to lead by example.

I also have to do the right thing because I feel responsible for keeping my family, neighbours, friends, & community safe. I want to get through this as much as the next person. I want my kids' lives to go back to normal. #ableg

A few weeks ago, my family went to the Leg to see the outdoor lights. We turned the car around halfway there because we had forgotten masks. The current orders do not *require* masks outdoors, but our mantra is to consider the spirit & intent of the orders, not parse words.

@vbspurs This will be my writing project for the day - hold on...

Fair warning: the Krittr family saga is not The Crown. Not even close. OTOH, it's not the Kartrashians either.

Ready?

It wasn’t as much that Grandpa Krittr (GK) didn’t understand her as he didn’t understand women in general. GK was the youngest of 8 kids born to a Volga German wheat farming family in Eastern Washington. He was the only one born in the US after 1/

2/ the family emigrated to the US. His only sister was almost 20 years older & had already moved away by the time he was born. [Yeah, he was a 7th son.]

[Side note: how the Volga Germans got to the US is an interesting story by itself. Short version is that they were all

3/ basically farmers who knew how to do one thing: grow wheat on unirrigated land, so they largely moved an entire village at a time from the Volga river valley to homestead in the areas where you can grow wheat without irrigation, namely E WA, parts of

4/ Montana & the Dakotas, and central Kansas. Often the villages spoke German except to outsiders, GK spoke German at home and English at school.]

Great grandpa Krittr (GGK) died long before I was born, but supposedly he was a good farmer, terrible to his wife and children,

@freedom9230 By flushing out the same inflammation that leads to depletion of the tryptophan pathway (which adjacently leads to depletion of serotonin) by all tryptophan depleting down to NAD+ in response to inflammation, niacin will quickly restore serotonin by restoring tryptophan.

It’s not really “excess” serotonin produced but rather, previously depleting/deficient serotonin becoming rapidly restored once the inflammation that was depleting it is flushed out by niacin.

Once inflammation is for the most part flushed out and thermodynamic energy transfer / metabolism / all auxiliary biochemistry are restored to more homeostatic states, supplemented niacin won’t affect tryptophan down to NAD+ or tryptophan to serotonin pathways.

Instead, with continued dosing, sufficiently supplied niacin will then work as continued pump-action against any downstream inflammation / free radical electrons that manifest thereafter by turning into NAADP if needed... and any free intracellular niacin will be urinated out

Does that make sense? Lol

1/31 Lots of media coverage, rightly, on huge NHS pressure. What’s cause of, and how widespread, is pressure? How is NHS responding? How serious is this & what’s impact on patients & staff? What’s likely to happen over next few weeks? Long new explainer thread below in two parts.

2/31 WHAT'S CAUSE OF, AND HOW WIDESPREAD IS, CURRENT NHS PRESSURE? Remember overall context. Winter always busiest time of NHS year & NHS capacity always at its most stretched. Last five winters show that, despite increases in capacity, NHS at / over its capacity limit...

3/31 ...Whilst overall staff levels improved in 2020, NHS also entered year with 100k vacancies. Covid makes all this much worse. NHS balancing four sets of patients – winter patients; covid patients; planned care cases, incl. delays from first phase; and those needing vaccine.

4/31 Covid cases rising extremely rapidly, driven by new variant. In England yesterday there were 22,700 covid patients in hospital vs 500 at start of Sept and 19k at top of 1st peak. Just since Xmas Day NHS has had 5,000 more covid inpatients, equivalent to filling 10 hospitals.

5/31 Impossible in a thread to capture full range of regional variation. But, at top level, London/SE/E of England trusts under substantial pressure. Northern trusts seen improvements since Oct but worried covid levels not dropped sufficiently to cope with any third surge.

#ClariOnHEMA getting theoretical again, this time on armour.

—Is leather armour historical?—

CW // none apply //

Short answer: Yes, but not the way you might think.

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There have absolutely been armour in which leather was used as material, but the RPG leather armour is mostly fictitious.

Leather armour is not flexible and supple. That's just leather clothing and protects about as well as an overcoat.

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Leather that has been treated (boiled or baked, we don't really know the exact process) is hard and resembles ceramic plates or hard plastic more than the flexible leather we use in clothing.

But hard plate sounds good for an armour, right?

Well, yes and no.

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Hardness is definitely a merit, but leather as a material poses some serious limitations.

1) You can't really repair leather armour

Cloth can be sown, metal can be welded and reforged, but apart from some very dubious glueing, there isn't much you can do for leather.

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You'd have to replace entire sections of the armour in their entirety, so field repairs are out of the question. Not a great feature for any professional soldier at least.

This doesn't preclude ceremonial use, but that takes it out of the realm of real armour altogether.

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